Karl Rove subpoenaed by Conyers

By GottaLaff

Don’tcha just love the blog title? Don’tcha hope a future one says, “Rove convicted and sent to prison for the rest of his miserable life”?

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has subpoenaed Karl Rove, the former top political advisor to President George W. Bush, to question what Rove knows about �politicization� of the Justice Department.

Until now, Rove claimed he was covered by executive privilege and refused to appear. Will he claim it again? Is he even able to (as if it were legal the first time, right?)?

�I have said many times that I will carry this investigation forward to its conclusion, whether in Congress or in court, and today�s action is an important step along the way,� Conyers said.

Rove has until Feb. 2 to respond to the subpoena.

Conyers added: �Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it�s time for him to talk.�

If he talks, he lies, so it’s almost moot. But, hey, it’s certainly worth a shot.

Conyers wants information from Rove on the U.S. attorney firings, which eventually led to the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Conyers also wants to know whether Rove has any information on the prosecution of Don Siegelman. A former GOP activist in Alabama said Rove was behind the Siegelman case but Rove strongly denied the allegation.

I have posted several times about Don Siegelman’s case (including Rove’s ignoring subpoenas). Nothing would be more gratifying than to see justice done on Siegelman’s behalf.

In fact, Thom Hartmann and Siegelman himself are convinced that this case is the one that would blow BushCo’s criminal activity wide open.

Finally, after years of stonewalling, there’s at least a chance of that happening.

If you have Myspace (which Rupert Murdercock turned to SHIT)

Thom Hartmann fan profile

Mike Malloy fan profile

Yes, I run ’em, NO, they are NOT in any way directly associated w/ Mike or Thom, I AM JUST A FAN WHO PUT THIS SHIT TOGETHER ON SHORT NOTICE…and did pretty good, I think…

10 reasons why Barack Obama is not president

By GottaLaff

UPDATE: CORRECTION and complete version HERE. I was finally able to track down the site of the man who Thom Hartmann interviewed. That’s the problem with hearing only part of an interview. I caught the segments that sounded genuine enough… coming from Republicans. It’s often hard to distinguish between their reality and satire.

Original post:

Bill O’Reilly will be hosting a Fox show called, “Ten Reasons Why Barack Obama is Not President”, or something very close to that. The reasons include: the time he was sworn in, the Big Birth Certificate Issue, that he speaks too sensibly for most Americans, palling around with terrorists makes him an enemy combatant, that he’s half white and half black…

No, I’m not kidding. I wish I’d caught the rest of this, but I was otherwise engaged.

The sub for Thom Hartmann interviewed a blogger who has posted the rest of the information, but I missed the link. What does it really matter, you get the gist.

These people are mentally ill.

APB!

Can ANYBODY find me / put together an ACCURATE list of either or both the CURRENT stations that have Thom Hartmann & Stephanie Miller?!

I was going to add in Rachel Maddow, but it seem AAR is pulling yet another bunghole move (or who knows, maybe this shit might work out!) and airing her in mornings somehow from her MSNBC show, who da fuck knows what the FUCK is going on at AAR!!!

READ THIS BOOK…NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late by Thom Hartmann

oh yeah AND:

Thom Hartmann: Columbia University Shows True American Values

“WELL I AM BE DUN GUESS TOM HARTMUN AM BE HATE uhMURikKUH two, ain’t that rights BillyBobCletusRayJimmyJoeBob! We am be must is stop all them towel-wrappers cuz yew knows they all am be terraists!”
Yeah, like Tim McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Eric Rudolph, the KKK, and on and on and on…
And for all you fucking war-loving dildos, here’s a link for you to USE: http://www.amry.com/ELIST !

Published on Monday, September 24, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

Columbia University Shows True American Values

by Thom Hartmann

Columbia University, by inviting Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic.

Ahmadinejad is the president of a major nation in a vital part of the world, and we should have enough self-assurance and belief in our own system of government, and in the intelligence of our college students, that we can let them (and our larger public) evaluate his words, whatever they may be.

To be terrified of his speaking there (or, for that matter, laying a wreath at Ground Zero) is behavior one would have expected from a fragile r�gime like Khrushchev’s USSR or Burma’s military junta, not the bold, brave, and fearless USA.

We are the nation whose President Nixon reached out to and met with China’s Mao Tse Tsung at the same time Mao was funding and arming the North Vietnamese to kill our soldiers in Vietnam. We’re the nation whose President Reagan confronted Soviet President Gorbachev, who at the time had thousands of nuclear warheads armed and pointed at us and was actively funding and arming proxy wars we were fighting in more than a half-dozen nations. We’re the nation whose President Roosevelt said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

And let’s also remember that the people of Tehran, Iran, produced one of the largest candlelight vigil demonstrations in the Muslim world in support of the USA the day after 9/11, repudiating the act and actors of that event. We still have the ability to make an ally of that nation, and shouldn’t blow it by fear and bluster (or bombs). America is better and stronger than the nervous Nellies and chickenhawk war-mongers who currently have control of the Republican Party (and a few Democrats, apparently).

As JFK said: “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

We are not afraid. We are Americans!

Thom Hartmann (thom at thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program on the Air America Radio Network. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent books are “ The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight,” “ Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights,” “ We The People: A Call To Take Back America,” “ What Would Jefferson Do?,” “Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It ,” and “Cracking The Code: The Art and Science of Political Persuasion .”

Sam Seder in for Thom Hartmann on Monday!

SamSederShow.com
Laura Flanders was DAMN GOOD filling in for Thom on Friday.
Sirius folks: That’ll be replayed tomorrow at 2PM and Midnight!
Notice how Air America gives her a show…on WEEKENDS! Fuckers! Ya know, the potential talent pool for Nova M is astounding when ya really think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To Hold Bush Accountable for Iraq, Democrats Should Listen to…Richard Nixon!

EXCELLENT CATCH FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/282
Click Lyndon Johnson Has Been a Failed War Leader and open it in a new tab or window or whatever, cuz it’s a fucking Flash file whatever and I can’t just gank the MP3 link GRRRR!
Or if you are a glutton for punishment, you can try this: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/modules/audio/players/mp3.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzflash.com%2Farticles%2Faudio%2Fplay%2F3241&song_title=Lyndon%20Johnson%20Has%20Been%20a%20Failed%20War%20Leader

• Artist: Richard Nixon
• Title: Lyndon Johnson Has Been a Failed War Leader
• Length: 1:04 minutes (501.47 KB)
• Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)

We were listening to the Thom Hartmann Show on Air America on Friday, September 7, and were blown away when he played this tape of Richard Nixon at the 1968 Republican Convention speaking about Lyndon Johnson’s failed Vietnam War.

It was a mind-boggling moment as we listened to the excerpt, because Nixon defined Johnson’s losing effort in the way that the Democrats should be doing with Bush.

Do the Democratic leaders on the Hill have anything to learn from Richard Nixon? We’d be the last to think so, until we heard this tape.

We asked Thom Hartmann to write us a note setting up the short clip:

“An unpopular president [Johnson] was prosecuting an unpopular war, which was despised by more than half the American people. His political opponent [Nixon, although Nixon actually ran against Humphrey, Johnson’s Vice-President] knew that the best way to take him down – and ultimately to take down his entire Party – was to simply say out loud what everybody knew to be true. To call out the President. To declare him and his war a failure. To call on the American people for truth and honesty in government, and an end to war. Here’s a quick clip composite, sent along to us by a listener (I’m sorry, I don’t remember whom) a year or so ago, of Richard Nixon at the 1968 Republican National Convention…”

— Thom Hartmann in an e-mail to BuzzFlash

You must take a listen to this Nixon 1968 GOP Convention statement on Johnson’s failure as a war leader. You simply must.

(Of course, Nixon lied about his “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War and expanded it into even more of a debacle, including precipitating the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia as a result of Kissenger’s rogue bombing of that nation. But that’s another story.)

Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state!!!

Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state
by Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday July 19, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html

Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies.
He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts — a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War — by quoting the “strong words” which open Roberts’ latest column: “Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.”
“I don’t actually think they’re very strong,” said Roberts of his words. “I get a lot of flak that they’re understated and the situation is worse than I say. … When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] … there’s no check to it. It doesn’t have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. … The American people don’t really understand the danger that they face.”
Roberts said that because of Bush’s unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why “the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush’s follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year’s election.”
However, Roberts emphasized, “the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling.” Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. “Something’s in the works,” he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.
“The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists … are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events,” Roberts continued. “Chertoff has predicted them. … The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. … You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda’s not going to do it, it’s going to be orchestrated. … The Republicans are praying for another 9/11.”
Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn’t about to happen. “If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it,” Roberts replied. However, he added, “I don’t think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective,” pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media.
“Americans think their danger is terrorists,” said Roberts. “They don’t understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. … The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren’t able to perceive that.”
Roberts pointed out that it’s old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. “It’s so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power,” he said. “There’s no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. … Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. … A person like that would do anything.”
Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, “the only constraints on what’s going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it.”
The full audio of Thom Hartmann’s interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here.

Regarding how FUCKED UP we are as a nation

Current mood: frustrated
Category: News and Politics

At least SOME of us remember the concept this country was founded upon: WE THE FUCKING PEOPLE! NOT “you the overlords” or whatever.

I hold out no hope that the Democratic Congress will cancel Bush’s fucked up directives, even though they are blatantly unconstitutional. I hold out no hope that the Total Information Awareness project and RealID will not make us slaves. I hold out no hope that Bush won’t attack Iran from the air. I hold out precious little hope that we will have elections in ’08, and if so, no hope that they will be free and fair.

However, less than 30% of the colonists supported the Revolution, and even Ethan Allan attempted to surrender to England if they would forgive him and his state. It was a brave few (relative to the size of the population) that secured our freedom. And, I’m not ready to give up what our forefathers have fought so hard for. Are you?! Or are you part of the 80% of so who graduated high school in 2003 and claimed you would “never voluntarily read a book again” and are more interested in download the new matchbox twenty piece of fucking retarded shit song on your goddamn iPhone while driving your 3 ton gas-guzzling SUV?!

(That is a SAD and SORRY and PATHETIC but sadly TRUE stat isn’t it?! 80% of high school grads in ’03 said in a Yale study that they’d NEVER read a book again if they didn’t absolutely have to. And to those people, all I have to say is:
Here’s Your Fucking “Sign”!!!!!!!!!!!
And if ya don’t get the reference, look into the comedy of Bill Engvall.)

PS Hey NSA, here’s some cryptic quotes for you, ya scumbag twatwaffling assblasting fuckheads:

“All it takes is a handful of people in the right places.
23 people led the Russian Revolution.”
– Anton LaVey as quoted in “The Secret Life of a Satanist” by Blanch Barton, p. 220

“Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?!”
-Dan Daly during the Battle of Belleau Wood in WW1

“The answer to 1984…is 1776!”

“I see you have made your decision, now let’s see you enforce it!”
– Eric Draven in THE CROW.

PPS If you ARE actually a *GASP* reader, check out this book PLEASE:

The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child By Thom Hartmann